Softly tread the brave
Subtitle: a triumph over terror, devilry, and death
By: by mine disposal officers John Stuart Mould, and Hugh Randal Syme.
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
Published: 1961
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Description: Taken from the preface, (4th para):
 "It is a story of wartime, but not of combat. It is a tribute, however inadequate, to the gigantic stature of the human spirit, to an unparalleled brand of courage and self-sacrifice. In this there is no courage of the moment, no flush of passion; this was self-discipline past belief, courage truly deyond understanding, as ordinary men rendered safe live weapons powerful enough to level a city block and vapourize their own bodies." 
            Last para of the preface: 
" It is the modesty of these men that is most moving. They cannot see that their sustained heroism has not grown out of tradition, but has made it."
Table of contents: title: The Thin Men
pagenum: 1
class: chapter
label: 1; label: 2
pagenum: 16
title: Take a Mine; label: 3
pagenum: 24
title: Room with Three doors - London; title: The Smell - Kent
pagenum: 39
label: 4; title: The Silence - Birmingham
pagenum: 57
label: 5; title: Christmas Party - Manchester
pagenum: 77
label: 6; label: 7
pagenum: 95
title: Act of God - Wales; title: The Background
pagenum: 112
label: 8; title: Deep-Sea Diver
pagenum: 126
label: 9; title: Kind of Awkward - Promrose Hill
pagenum: 142
label: 10; label: 11
pagenum: 154
title: The Thirteenth - Essex; label: 12
pagenum: 165
title: The Vernon Experts; label: 13
pagenum: 174
title: Man They Couldn't Kill - Lancashire; title: A Week with George
pagenum: 191
label: 14; label: 15
pagenum: 210
title: The Great Sands - Humber Estuary; title: The New Order
pagenum: 237
label: 16; label: 17
pagenum: 261
title: Jinx - Mainly Portsmouth; label: 18
pagenum: 290
title: Conclusion